What is a Blue cruise?

Blue cruise is not an ordinary type of holidays. On Blue cruise you will experience different bays, tows and islands every day. The crew will take care of all your wishes. Experienced captain, chef and sailors will make sure your only thing to do while on cruise is relax, swim and ejnoy in things you prefer the most.

When you try Blue Cruise once, you will never wish to go on a standard hotel holidays again as the experience you will gather is truly amazing. You can either rent a cabin charter Blue Cruise, and join other people on board or you can gather a group of friends and family and rent entire gulet just for yourself. Gulet cruises are now possible in several destinations, such as Croatia, Turkey, Greece, Italy and Maldives.

Choosing the right GULET CRUISE?

When choosing the right gulet cruise there are 4 questions you need to prepare your answers to:

1. What is your aproximate budget you had in mind?
2. What destination are you interested in to travel?
3. Departure date/period?
4. Number of passengers in your group?

Once you know the answers, you have almost UNLIMITED OPTIONS for your gulet cruise. Untill now, you had to search several web pages and contact a lot of different suppliers. On Goolets.com all gulet cruise offer is gathered on one place. If you give us the information mentioned above, we will give you several possibilites that suit your budget, schedule, destination and the number of passengers in your group. Choosing the right vessel out of more then 350 available gulets is not easy so sometimes it is better to give all the info to one of our professionals and they will carefully guide you to entire proceedure from sendng the first inquiry and untill you get back home.

Do gulets sail and do I need a sailing licence to rent a gulet?

Gulets are CREWED MOTOR SAILING YACHTS! This means that they usually travel on MOTOR, but they also have sails and some of them also have really good sailing capabilities. However if sailing is truly very important for you you should notice this in your first inquiry you send us. A lot of gulets are not very well equiped with sailing equipment or they have captains which are not saiing experts. Gulets still mostly travel on motor, but there are exeptions of course. If you truly like sailing let us know and we will put you to gulet which can sail. Truly sail!

You do not need sailing licence of course to book a gulet. Gulet type ships are CREWED YACHTS, which means there is ALWAYS a crew that will take care of your needs. The Captain will drive the yacht for you. The cook will prepare food for you and a waiter will prepare everything, so that you can only sit by your table as in a hotel and eat your food – AND THE UNFORGETTABLE VIEWS OF THE SEA ARE INCLUDED IN THE PRICE.

So, you do not have to worry about knowing how to drive a gulet, you will not have to cook, you will not have to serve food, you will not have to clean dishes.

How is the price calculated on a blue cruise?

For gulet cruises (for private yacht charters) the main price is calculated as CHARTER PRICE where FOOD is always considered as extra payment.

Charter price ALWAYS includes:

FOOD is considered an extra payment. You can choose between HALF BOARD (breakfast, lunch), FULL BOARD (breakfast, lunch, dinner) or ALL INCLUSIVE (Full board + unlimited local drinks). Some gulets provide a choice-list of food you wish to have on board (in this case the charges for food depend on the shopping list we make together). Basic costs for food range from 175 €/person/week and up to 250 €/person/week.

You can always choose from different menus: vegetarian menu, fish menu, meat menu, local food menu, super luxury menu, low budget menu...

If you decide for blue cruise cabin charter, then the price is calculated as price per person in double cabin, including full board or half board accomodation.  

Are there any extra (hidden) costs in addition to the charter price and food expenses?

Besides the mentioned costs, you have to consider some other costs as well. Some extra costs are COMPULSORY, while other only appear if you specifically ask for a service.

Transfers from airport to gulet and back: some gulets have this cost included in the charter price. If it is an extra payment, we will let you know about it when we prepare the first offer for you.

1. All drinks on board: if you do not decide for an all-inclusive package you will have to buy drinks extra from the ship's bar. It is usually not allowed to bring own drinks on board of a gulet but you can pay a corcage fee/service fee and then it is not a problem.
2. Port taxes: in Turkey, port taxes ARE included in price, while in all other countries they are considered as EXTRA payment. Port tax costs depend on the route you have. If you stay every day in a different marina or town, costs for larger gulets can sum up to 1.200 EUR/week. On the other hand, if you overnight in wild moorings in some bays or isolated islands and enjoy the nature more, the costs of port taxes might sum up to less than 350 EUR/week. Average port tax costs are from 400 EUR to around 700 EUR per week.
3. On board activities: waterskiing, jet-ski, parasailing, professional diving, rafting, extra crew, such as hostess or masseuse, special trips to national parks… These and many other activities on blue cruise and can be arranged as NON-MANDATORY extra costs. If you wish to include any of the on-board activities, please specify this before departure and it can all be arranged.

Do I have to share cabins with the crew?

All gulets are presented with the information on the number of cabins each gulest have. This is the number of cabins – FOR GUESTS! Crew always has separate crew cabins, so you do not have to worry about that. Also, if you see a gulet boat that you really like, but has one cabin less than what you need for your group, contact us anyway. Sometimes gulet owners make special favors and they might be willing to lend the owner's cabin to clients.

Will we sail during the blue cruise? Do we have to pay for fuel we use?

Some gulets are great sailors, while some are not. Main traveling on gulet blue cruise is on motor, but you will also sail 2 or 3 times in a week. Some gulets however have really good sailing capabilities and they offer special SAILING programs. Fuel for 4 hour cruise/day is always included in the charter price. Owners will never look at their watch and remind you how much time they cruised that day. If you have a special desire for longer than usual routes, we will discuss it with the captain and we will inform you about the extra costs in advance.Blue cruises are all about flexibility.

What is the usual booking procedure?

Once you have realized that our gulet offer is really the best possible vacation for you, you can either search for a gulet by yourself with the help of our SEARCH SYSTEM or send us an inquiry with as much information as possible.

After that we will give you several offers, and you will decide in your group what suits you best. If for any reason nothing to your likes is found we will ask you for some more information about your wishes and we will make you another offer. Once we have found a gulet by your wishes, the procedure is as follows:

   1. We make a NON OBLIGATION option with the gulet owner, so nobody can book this period once you have reserved it.

   2. We prepare a contract between your group and our company and we send you also the GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS, SHIP TERMS AND CONDITIONS and SHIP RULES and the invoice for deposit payment.

   3. After the deposit payment is made and contract signed - reservation is fixed.

   4. The difference has to be paid 1 month before departure or on spot, depends on the gulet and the country you are making reservation for.

   5. We will send you a PREFERENCE LIST SHEET 4 weeks before your departure where you give us all information about the food you wish to have on board, about the route you wish to make and about all activities you expect on board so that the crew on board is 100% prepared for your group arrival.

Why can www.gulettrader.com provide such great deals? 

Our company is a customer oriented company. Our aim is to serve BIGGER NUMBER OF PEOPLE with LOVER PROFIT MARGINS to get the same result in the end of the day.  As we are 100% gulet blue cruise oriented company we do not spend any of our time on promoting hotels, yacht charter and bareboat charter operations or motor yacht business. This enables us to fully concentrate only on getting THE BEST DEALS and serving our clients the best we can along with keeping the same standards of quality even at lower prices.

We wish you a nice Blue cruise!